Rating: 
Summary: Mousetrap
Review: This book has been recommended reading for medical practitioners. Guess what? The Cheese moved and their still wondering where the cheese went and when it will come back. I am aware of many people who have gained alot from this book. It isnt anything we dont already know,its simply needing to hear it again or in a new way. I too feel I am adaptable (maybe we all do)and recently I learned more about the cheese. I dont necessarily need to move with the cheese. I dont even want the cheese anymore, I just wanted out of the mouse trap. If nothing else, its fun and a great way to reference change in the workplace place.
Rating: 
Summary: A good illustration what can happen when change appears
Review: Change happens, but what to do when it happens? Many academic books deal with this question. Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple story about mice and small people in a maze to illustrate what can happen when change (someone has moved the cheese to another place) appears. I read the book in an hour and enjoyed how the author demonstrated basic principles of change in a pleasant way. From a distance, you watch how four different characters handle change. Maybe you'll discover your own actions in one of them.
Rating:
Summary: Something to think about
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese" is a great book. I read itthrough work and will be buying copies for myself and my friends. I amsurprised at the responses from [some] that were so cynical...but then again, their characters/behaviors are represented in this book. All of us are in this book. While it is an easy read, it leaves you with alot to think about: 1)Your own outlook, 2)The outlook of those around you (Where are THEY coming from?), and, 3)How you might better deal with the inevitable changes in life (however irritating)- just to name a few. This book also helps you to understand which of these character types your co-workers are, and that helps in knowing how to use your teamwork skills to make your department, business, or life in general, work more smoothly. It also made me realize that some peoples' personalities and outlooks fight change so hard that they might not ever be willing to move along with the team, and while that is irritating to people like me, at least after reading this book I can understand it more and not let it drive me crazy. This book is a simple read. Not alot of words on the pages, but many things to think about. I'm buying a copy for myself because it is a book that you may from time to time want to re-read in case you start to fall back into your regular patterns of perhaps not accepting change so well. It's a cute, helpful book.
Rating: 
Summary: Not exactly motivational
Review: I understood the concept of the "Cheese" and I don't think I'm above adapting to change, but that is just it. The book doesn't really give you ways of dealing with change, and it doesn't really motivate you to change. It basically tells you "Change or Die, it's your choice". It's basic point is what everyone knows and hears day in and day out and that is that "Change is Good!" Thank you - next book please.
Rating: 
Summary: Now they're cutting the cheese...
Review: The guys who wrote this claptrap are probably pigging out right now in some expensive New York restaurant, shaking their collective heads that people (a lot of people) actually went out and made their pithy rumination a best seller, and them even more rich. I recently went to a board meeting and, in horror, saw this book on a chair, brought in by someone wanting someone else to notice how "in tune" she was with cutting-edge Business Thinking, that it could bestow The Answer to the board's problems if only they would heed The Call. Hogwash. In many cases, resistance to change is good (I hope every person who left secure jobs for loser dot coms is listening) and it is sometimes the most virtuous thing a person can do in the face of cheese being held by ignoramuses. I say fight for the cheese! The kind of people who read this stuff are sitting ducks, followers all, uncreative and without guts. A better book to read on ensuring a successful and rewarding career is "The Management Principles of Attila the Hun." For all of our sophistication, we are bound by certain social bonds and expectations that never change and never should. Getting what you want is primal. It needs to be attained primally. Confrontation is natural.
Rating:
Summary: Good, but borrow it if you can instead of buying it.
Review: There's a small dinnertime story in this book which is valuable for most prople who are going through change in their lives, be it in the home or on the job. However, there is not much meat and the book is way overpriced for the amount of material that it presents. This also sounds a lot like "corporate brainwashing". Ie. if your boss needed you to accept a change, he might give you this book. Mr Johnson presents the picture that we are all "mice" running around in a maze where someone else/inevitable situations move your goals/money/cheeze around. Luckily I borrowed the book at a library and did not buy it, cos I would have regretted buying it. I also asked my wife to read it. Recommendation: It is a good book. Read it with your mind open. Borrow it if you can.
Rating:
Summary: Cheesy, Yes. But a great lesson taught.
Review: This book makes for a very quick and insightful read. The subject matter presented effects all aspects of life from the workplace to home-life and the story that Spencer Johnson brings to life teaches some very obvious, yet often forgotten lessons.
Rating:
Summary: Too simple minded
Review: This is another one of those management buzz things. It spend too much time stating the obvious and never addresses why the cheese needs to be moved at all. Don't expect any great revelations here.
Rating:
Summary: I Now Know How To Move My Cheese
Review: This is a fantastic boo, not only about the business world, but also about your personal life. It has many different applications in your day to day work environment, home, family and friends. I would highly recomend this book for it simplicity as well as its applicability when it comes to work, life and relationships. If you have ever done the FORUM, read this book.
Rating:
Summary: Life Changing Cheese
Review: Reading this book has changed my life. It is so simple yet so profound. The author has taken mice and little people and turned them into icons. Anyone who is dealing with change, fear, relationships, success, or failure should read the book. It will take you 30 minutes to an hour to read. If you don't like it, you haven't lost much. If you like it, you'll realize that the time you spent will be well worth it and much more.
|
